28 DECEMBER 1974, page 20

Russian Fantasies

Richard Luckett Dostoevsky Leonid Grossman (Allen Lane £700) Leonid Grossman, the Russian literary historian and critic who died in 1965, had the misfortune to be interested......

Animal Spirits

David Williams Animal Land. The Creatures of Children's Fiction Margaret Blount (Hutchinson E4.50) Most animals — I make an exception of tortoises — are as full of character and......